Marquette High School - Marque Yearbook (Tulsa, OK)

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sends message fa nur graduates. lc r From the desk of Dr. John Wu, a prominent Catholic layman, who stands as an ideal to us of one in whom East and West have met - Let Chapter 43 of Ecclesiasticus be my letter to your seniors. Look up to the rainbow and bless the Maker of it! The moderns still look up at the rainbow, but they try to analyze it and find nothing beneath it - as if they wish to show their own clever- ness by their ability to annihilate everything. But we old-timers are grateful to the Supreme Artist, for all the beauties He has produced by His marvelous creative art. For us the rainbow borrows its reality from Reality. We link up the phenomenal world directly to its Maker, and lo and behold! even the rainbow comes to possess substance. May we who are modems in one sense, be old-fashioned enough to look with you, Dr. Wu, upon all God's wonders, as the gifts of a loving Father. May we realize that all power of creatures - human, atomic or otherwise - is insignificant in contrast with the omnipotence of God. P97

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It is a mistake to regard Christianity as Western. The West may be Christian, CI wish it were more sol, but Christianity is not Western. It is beyond East and West, beyond the old and the new. It is older than the old, newer than new . . . Christ constitutes the unity of my life. It is thanks to this unity that I can reioice in being born yellow and educated white. John C. H. Wu We graduates of 1956 face a world that is ask- ing itself, Must East and West destroy one an- other? Must individuals be destroyed by the tur- bulent forces in and around them? As Catholics, we know that the answer lies not in destruction or partial destruction, but in unity - unity in One Who, being lifted up, draws all things to Himself. CHRIST IS THE UNITY OF THE WORLD. He is the Life of the Mystical Body in which alone rests hope of world peace. CHRIST IS THE WHOLENESS OF THE INDIVID- UAL. Mathematical skills, the gift of languages, musical talent, the ability to work or recreate with others are meaningless when separated from the Source of all gifts and the End toward which they must be directed. It is the responsibility of the Christian of the mid-twentieth century to bring Christ and thereby, PEACE THROUGH UNITY, to self and to a chaotic world. May the Church, through us, bring all men to unity in Him Who is BEYOND EAST AND WEST.